The history of Bristol Cars goes back to the end of World War II, when the Bristol Aeroplane Company teamed up with AFN Ltd, producers of Frazer Nash cars, and planned a joint venture to enter the automotive manufacturing business.
After a director of the Bristol Aeroplane Company visited a bombed BMW factory in Munich, he started planning to take BMW cars back into production in the UK alongside with a BMW chief engineer.
The first car
The company's first car was th... more